“Smith’s gifts of imagination are staggering. Her world-building is a ...wickedly satirical synthesis that underlines just how fractured our own realities can be during periods of fear, unrest, inequality, and instability”
NPR

“a complex and beautiful rendering of that vanished country and its scattered people; a reminder of the power and purpose of art; and an ode to female creativity under a patriarchy that repeatedly tries to snuff it out.”
The New York Times